This press release is particularly fluffy, but whatever the reality of this very vaguely defined algorithmic development the basic message is correct to validate nine
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Suppose we have a state machine Q, that implements a common first in first out queue. The input alphabet of Q consists of “Deq” and
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The connection between group structure and pipeline design seems like it merits a lot more attention than it gets. It’s not too hard to show
Read moreThe Amory Lovins bottleneck
Lovins observes that power inputs in many industrial processes go into a bottleneck that makes power conservation hard if you start at the wrong end.
Read moreAn interesting article in ACM communications: is the world ending?
Coverity has a program that reads other programs looking for errors. The company started as a research project from Stanford (how unusual!) and the Communications
Read moreToyota’s problem: hardware weenies and poor accounting practices [updated]
Jamie Kitman’s look at the twisted path Toyota followed to it’s current difficulties inspired me to think about software and money – two topics I
Read moreRecursion and state update and Hungarian Mathematicians
Please see this ever modifying page which seeks to demonstrate in a poorly organized, yet humorous manner, what the hell I’m trying to accomplish with
Read moreInstructions per joule – a good start
… multi-GHz superscalar quad-core processors can execute approximately 100 million instructions per Joule, assuming all cores are active and avoid stalls or mispredictions. Lower-frequency in-order
Read moresequential and combinational state machines
There’s a correspondence between the notions of “combinational” and “sequential” in digital circuit engineering and some structure in state machines (and therefore monoids) that seems
Read moreLinux semaphores
Re: Schedule idle MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu) Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:09:32 +0100 (CET) […] > _please_ We can do better than this. Only semaphores (not
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